Het verstand komt met het ambt

Author: 
Claessens, M.
Journal: 
in: En Bracht de Schare tot Kalmte:
Publisher: 
Den Haag: Sdu Uitgevers
Year: 
1997

Title translated:

The understanding comes with the office)

A chapter in Joost Cox's En Bracht de Schare tot Kalmte: bespiegelingen over de gemeentesecretaris door de eeuwen heen (And brought the crowd to calm: reflections on the city secretaries through the ages)

An excellent short account, in Dutch, of the life of Anthonie Heinsius in Delft during the time he worked in the Stadhuis with Leeuwenhoek and before Heinsius became an international figure, raad-pensionaris of the Republic in 1689.